confiscate
verb🔊/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
🔊/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they confiscate | 🔊/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/ 🔊/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪt/ |
| he / she / it confiscates | 🔊/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪts/ 🔊/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪts/ |
| past simple confiscated | 🔊/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle confiscated | 🔊/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form confiscating | 🔊/ˈkɒnfɪskeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪtɪŋ/ |
- confiscate something
to officially take something away from somebody, especially as a punishment （尤指作为惩罚）没收，把…充公 Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。 🔊🔊 The teacher threatened to confiscate their phones if they kept using them in class. 老师警告说，如果他们上课时继续使用手机就予以没收。 🔊🔊 Our belongings were temporarily confiscated. 我们的财产被暂时没收。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryConfiscate is used with these nouns as the object:- passport
- property
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin confiscat- ‘put away in a chest, consigned to the public treasury’, from the verb confiscare, based on con- ‘together’ + fiscus ‘chest, treasury’.